Alphadogg writes "A assistant educator from the health center of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sounding a warning that companies, the supremacy and researchers need to come up with a plan for preserving our increasingly digitized data in light of shifting form superintendence and other disk operating system platforms (think WordPerfect and floppy disks). Jerome P. McDonough, who teaches at the Graduate School of Library and dope* Science at the health center of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says there exists about 369 exabytes worth of data, and that includes some pretty hard to replace stuff, including tax files, email and photos. Open a must could play a key role in any preservation effort, he says. 'If we can't keep today's tidings alive for future generations, we will lose a lot of our culture,' McDonough said. Even over the course of 10 years, you can have a rapid enough flowering in the ways people store digital ammo* and the programs they use to access it that file formats can fall out of date.'"

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